​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Episode 68: Imagining the Internet

We were promised flying cars and we got Twitter instead. That's the common complaint against sci-fi authors. But some writers did imagine the telecommunications that changed our world for better or worse. Cory Doctorow, Ada Palmer, Jo Walton and Arizona State University professor Ed Finn look at the cyberpunks and their predecessors. And artist Paul St George talks about why he's fascinated by a Skype-like machine from the Victorian era. ​

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